I finally own a 69 Stang again. It's not a Mach, it's very plain, but it's a kick to drive anyway.

Stats:

302 2V (Will Eventually Go TBFI)
Single Exhaust Out (Will Eventually Go Dual)
Originally Candy Apple Red (That'll Stay)
Built June 20th, 1969 in Dearborn
2.79 Standard Rear Axle (Jury's Out Still On This One)
C-4 Cruise-O-Matic (May Go FMX)
Dark Kiwi Vinyl Buckets
Power Steering
Drum Brakes (Will Eventually Go Disc Front W/Power Assist)

 

Dude thats hott

 

Pull that 302 out and drop in a build 429 cobra jet!!

 

TBFI? FMX? Looks like a fun project...

 

Have fun -- the busted knuckles will eventually be worth it......

 

Nice car.

A 3.25 or 3.50 gear and a hotter cam would work wonders.

 

very nice..

 

Why go FMX over a built C4? The FMX is a heavy cast iron, primarily truck, transmission. Love the Stang though, I miss mine even more now.

 

Personal preference mostly. I pulled an FMX out of a 72 Cougar for another 69 Fastback that I used to have, and coupled it to a lightly modified 351W. The abuse that it took was insane. The C4 is a good tranny too, but for sentimental reasons, I'd prefer the FMX.

 

I put in a '70 351W with FMX into my '67 fastback. The 351 had a 600 cfm Holley and headers. The car was sold new with a dealer installed 3.50 Detroit Locker, 8". With the 351, it was a nice running combo.

The FMX took more abuse than the 8" rear could, as eventually the pinion snapped on the 8". Too many smoky burnouts and neutral drops, I guess.

Slipped in a non-posi 2.79 from a swap meet. Lost a lot of accelleration off the line, but it would get 20 mpg, and with a kick down from freeway speed it would pull hard through 2nd gear.

 

That's why my Jury is still out on a rear end swap. The 2.79 with a 3 speed auto is a good combination for a 302. It's not really fast off the line, but the gas mileage is fair, and I can do 75 miles an hour without hearing the whine of high rpms.

24 years ago when I built my first 69 Stang, it stomped alot of bow-tie racers at the local cruise (West Colfax in Denver). It was a blast. My car didn't look that hot because I (okay, my dad mostly) put the money in it for go and not show.

Now that I'm approaching geezerhood, I'm pretty content with higher top end, and slower off the line. I'm more interested in the heads the car turns then the timestamp from the track. I may still build a beefy 302 for it, but no big blocks, high winders, or superchargers/turbos. (As I write that, my mind is telling me that a turbo would be cool.)

I'm just gonna have fun with it. The FMX will definately handle whatever I go with!

 

Gotcha. I know I beat on my junk hard so a cast iron trans might be a good idea for me too.

 

Yeah, the stock hydraulic cammed 302, 289 and 351W just run out of breath by 4,800 rpm or so. Without an OD transmission, it's not a comfortable modern freeway cruiser with a 3.50 gears and standard size tires.

Most of the time, my '67 fastback had a high winding LeMans cammed 289 with top loader 4 speed, the 351W heads, dual valve springs, single plane intake manifold, etc... It would not idle smoothly below about 1,100 rpm. With high compression pistons it made decent power off idle and really came alive at 3,000 rpm, which is where it would cruise in 4th on the highway. That motor would wind out to about 6,500 and probably made peak power about 6,200. It was a beast, but was more road race (motor and suspension) than street cruiser.

That was also over 25 years ago, so I certainly understand the desire to be more mellow with advancing age, lol. I think old tech brakes and steering boxes also play a part in not wanting to push a 40 year old car.

 

That is too freakin cool man!!!!! You are sooooooooooooooooooo lucki. My dream project car is the 69 fastback 390 GT.
Enjoy her man!

 

This is my Dad's 69 Mach1 with a 390. I'll get better pictures of it one of these days.